Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
Author: Virginia WoolfTheme: Poetry, Family, ArtWords: talk, order, hour
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Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Author: Kurt VonnegutTheme: Art, Friendship, PoetryWords: soul, grow, friend, created
You are putting yourself in serious danger…’I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.
Author: Marjane SatrapiTheme: Humor, Funny, ParentingWords: serious, proud, danger, putting, shame
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Author: Albert EinsteinTheme: Art, Science, ExperienceWords: beautiful, emotion
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it were?t so exciting.
Author: Bill GatesTheme: FunnyWords: help, everyone, rich, exciting, receive
When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I’d be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel.
Author: Charlaine HarrisTheme: Reading, Funny, PowerWords: fact, open, took, seemed, water, strength
I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure
Author: Paulo CoelhoTheme: Inspirational, Reading, FunnyWords: looking, treasure, adventurer
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you’re thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
Author: Orson Scott CardTheme: Humor, FunnyWords: hope, ugly, dumb, thirsty
Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.
Author: Jean-Paul SartreTheme: Time, FunnyWords: forget, thoughts, remain, failure, assume, amusing
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Author: Ernest HemingwayTheme: Funny, SocietyWords: interesting, drink
Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Author: Robert Louis StevensonTheme: Funny, MenWords: rest, devil, bottle, rum
"Chancellor Michael Harris is An Incandescent Spirit Forging A New Reality.”" – Eva Roa – White.
“Chancellor Michael Harris is An Incandescent Spirit Forging A New Reality.”” – Eva Roa – White.
"Create room for your people to excel or they will migrate" – sotonye anga
“Create room for your people to excel or they will migrate” – sotonye anga
it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee
Author: William ShakespeareWords: speak
Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
Author: Albert EinsteinTheme: NatureWords: universe, insane, asylum
"Try not to be someone else. Be you and be glad you are you" – sotonye anga
“Try not to be someone else. Be you and be glad you are you” – sotonye anga
"Don’t miss your place of assignment. Be there" – sotonye anga
“Don’t miss your place of assignment. Be there” – sotonye anga
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties? this knowledge, this feeling? that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
Author: Albert EinsteinTheme: Love, Wisdom, ArtWords: sense, feeling, fear, dead, longer, knowledge, whose, poor, emotion
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"- Albert Einstein
Author: Albert EinsteinTheme: Science, Experience, ArtWords: beautiful, source, mysterious
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King’s army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.
Author: PlutarchTheme: History, Power, WarWords: told, stand, advance, army
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Author: Albert EinsteinTheme: Art, Happiness, IntelligenceWords: knowledge, joy, teacher, expression, creative, supreme
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Author: Albert EinsteinTheme: Funny, Time, WomenWords: girl, second, sit, nice, hour
The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
Author: Vanessa HudgensTheme: MenWords: pretty, guy, makeup, sweetest
It’s just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It’s important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn’t revolve around Hollywood.
Author: Vanessa HudgensTheme: Love, SocietyWords: world, close, near, keeping
I have three closets in my bedroom.
Author: Vanessa HudgensWords: three, bedroom
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to ‘Cold Stone Creamery,’ get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
Author: Vanessa HudgensWords: eat, ice, cream, orange, permanently
The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba’s father gets trampled.
Author: Vanessa HudgensTheme: DadWords: father, gets, especially, cry, trampled
Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.
Author: Bruce WillisTheme: ArtWords: film, culture, pop
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
Author: William Arthur WardTheme: ReligionWords: today, gave, gift, thank
See what I have to put up with every night?
Author: Sean HannityWords: night
Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don’t even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.
Author: Chuck ZitoTheme: MoneyWords: care, house, pay, week
Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.
Author: Ruth HandlerTheme: SocietyWords: world, play, sit, carry, imagined
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Author: Charles Dudley WarnerWords: half, wholly, ruined, conformity
I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.
Author: Chris NothWords: explain, figured
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
Author: Earl WarrenWords: world, today, quietly, distinguished, tower
When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their interests in mind, they’re more susceptible to go to war.
Author: Howard ZinnTheme: Government, War, SocietyWords: mind, understand, susceptible
Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
Author: Fred ThompsonWords: build, draw
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Author: Xun ZiTheme: Nature, AngerWords: evil, goodness, activity, caused, intentional
I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
Author: Emile ZolaTheme: ArtWords: artist, loud
I think as a culture, we don’t like conflict or looking at icky stuff – especially in our downtime.
Author: Kathleen HannaTheme: Art, WarWords: looking, stuff, especially, culture, conflict